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Thousands of children on Sunday filled the streets of cities and towns around Spain to see the Three Kings parades including floats, costumed paraders, tons of candy and thousands of gifts of all sorts, a delightful yearly event enjoyed by kids of all ages as well as adults.

In addition to the colors, lights and music, the paraders riding the floats distributed tons of sweets to the crowds while children gazed longingly at the toys displayed there, hoping to receive the gifts they desire most this evening at home after placing a glass of milk out for the “visiting” Three Kings and a carrot or two for their camels or horses.

Panama Canal Authority administrator Jorge Quijano said in an interview published in the Spanish press Sunday that those in charge of the $5.25 billion expansion of the Central American nation’s inter-oceanic waterway are “prepared to be a little aggressive” and added that the project will be completed “as soon as possible.”

“We’re not going to sit here waiting for time to pass” without reacting after the consortium undertaking the expansion announced that it will suspend work if a cost overrun of some $1.6 billion is not acknowledged, Quijano told the Spanish daily El Pais.

Eusebio da Silva Ferreira, considered in Portugal to be the best soccer player of all time, died Sunday of cardiorespiratory failure, Benfica, the club for which he played during the bulk of his career, said. He was 71.

Eusebio, known as the “Black Panther,” had suffered from assorted health problems since the summer of 2012, when he suffered a stroke while he was accompanying the Portuguese team to the Eurocup in Poland.

The production team for the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie has decided to shoot scenes in Miami this week after cancelling filming in Vancouver, Canada, due to bad weather, representatives of the production company told Efe.

Stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson will spend two weeks in Miami shooting scenes, many of which will be filmed in the South Florida city’s downtown.

With only six more months until the World Cup in Brazil, a new chapter in the rivalry between Nike and Adidas has already begun. Adidas is the official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup while Nike sponsors the host country.

Nike currently owns 14.6 percent of the global sporting goods market to Adidas’ 11.4 percent, and it’s quickly approaching the lead Adidas has in Western Europe. Adidas held 13.2 percent of the western Europe sporting goods market in 2012 to Nike’s 12.4 percent, according to Euromonitor data.

Angeles sin Fronteras, a group formed to assist people deported from the United States, has created five shelters to help migrants, who often end up penniless on the streets of Mexican border cities.

The newest shelter was opened in Mexicali, the capital of the northwestern state of Baja California, where the group rented an abandoned hotel to serve as a refuge for the rising number of poor deportees in the area.